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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






2. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






3. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






4. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






5. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






6. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






7. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






8. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






9. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






10. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






11. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






12. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






13. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






14. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






15. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






16. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






17. Ability to understand and express spoken language






18. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






19. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






20. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






21. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






22. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






23. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






24. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






25. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






26. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






27. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






28. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






29. Feeling through fingertips






30. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






31. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






32. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






33. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






34. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






35. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






36. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






37. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






38. Individual Educational Plan






39. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






40. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






41. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






42. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






43. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






44. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






45. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






46. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






47. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






48. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






49. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






50. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.